The 12th

Metro Manila Film Festival The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is an annual film festival held in Metro Manila, Philippines. The festival, which runs from December 25 (Christmas) through New Year's Day and into first weekend of January in the following year, focuses on ...

was held in 1986. NCV productions' ''Halimaw sa Banga'' romped away 10 of the 12 awards given including the

Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to: Film awards * AACTA Award for Best Direction * Academy Award for Best Director * BA ...

and Best Actor for

Mario O'Hara Mario Herrero O'Hara (April 20, 1946 – June 26, 2012) was a Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter known for his sense of realism often with dark but realistic social messages.Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress aw ...

for

Liza Lorena Elizabeth Ann Jolene Luciano Winsett (born October 31, 1949), known professionally as Liza Lorena, is a Philippine actress. She was a First Runner-Up in the Bb. Pilipinas pageant in 1966. Career Lorena was a flight stewardess (for PAL domestic ...

- Banga Episode among others. The film also garnered the Third Best Picture Award. Romy Vitug won the Best Cinematography Award for Celso Ad. Castillo's ''Payaso'' while the director's son, Chris Ad Castillo, received the Best Supporting Actor Award for Augusto Buenaventura's ''Bagets Gang''."THE 1986 METRO MANILA FILM FESTIVAL: THE WORST IN 12 YEARS"
''Video 48''. Retrieved 2014-04-13.''The Times Journal''. "Controversy Rocks film festival". December 29, 1986. Newspaper Print.

Entries

Winners and nominees

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Multiple awards

Ceremony Information

Gabi ng Parangal

The following are the key people during the "Gabi ng Parangal". *Guest Speaker:

Kris Aquino Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino (born February 14, 1971), professionally known as Kris Aquino (), is a Filipino television host, actress, producer, socialite and businesswoman. Dubbed as Philippine's "Queen of All Media", Aquino has hos ...

- representative of President

Cory Aquino Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People P ...

*Metro Manila Commission officer in charge and executive chairman of the 1986 MMFF - Joey Lina

Lack of Award categories

The 1986

was considered the worst in the 12-year history of the annual 10-day festival of local movies. For the first time, it did not give out the traditional first and second Best Picture awards as well as the other two categories: Best Story and Best Screenplay. According to one of the jurors,

Tingting Cojuangco Margarita "Tingting" de los Reyes Cojuangco (born Margarita Manzano de los Reyes on April 29, 1944) is a Filipina politician, philanthropist and socialite. She was the former Chairman of the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi) party and a mem ...

stated: "No one of the seven entries deserved these awards..." He added that they: "...would like to express heirconcern over the current state of the Philippine movie industry as reflected in the entries to the year's MMFF... he entriesfailed to reinforce and inculcate positive Filipino values by portraying negative stereotypes, imitating foreign films and perpetuating commercially-oriented movies...".Cojuangco, Tingting. Metro Manila Film Festival Award Ceremonies. ULTRA, Pasig. December 27, 1986.

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References

External links

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